On Memorial Day we remember and honor our fallen, those who lost their lives in service to our country in the armed forces. When I think about the cost that has been paid for the ideals of country, both by those who lost their lives and by their family members who have grieved and lived with [...]
Is it just me or has this campaign season been the most unbearable campaign season of all time? I think it has been decidedly more unbearable because of Facebook. Facebook has become a more powerful delivery system of brutal character blows than any attack television ads, because we know the person placing the advertisement. Facebook friends [...]
I abhor political campaign ads, so I tend to ignore them. However, there is a rare exception that strikes me in a way that I give it some of my attention. Case-in-point, Rick Berg's ad that features four older ladies at a diner lamenting that Heidi Heitkamp can't be trusted because of things she has said and [...]
The days of me trusting politicians, even the ones I like, are over. I guess you could say that after years of watching the ins-and-outs of politics, I am jaded. I no longer believe in the notion of the white knight (of any gender) riding into the political landscape and making everything good and honorable [...]
I received an email the other day from Barack. The subject line read, "FLOTUS" - which caused me to say, "What the hell is that?" I am, after all, in a field that is fairly acronym savvy so I consider myself to be quite sharp as it applies to de-acronyming things, but FLOTUS??!! WTF? Now, [...]
If you read my blog regularly you know that I don't spend time talking about politics. Indeed, my blog is fairly apolitical. I don't like to get dragged down in the rhetoric of politics. Plus, there are plenty of other folks on Area Voices that have plenty of political views to share...I don't think another [...]
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